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24-08-2005, 12:56
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HL Platinum to DVD help
Hi, I just bought the platinum edition of HL which includes 5 games - HL, Opposing Force, CS, TFC, and Blue Shift. The problem is each comes on a single cd, and thus is a pain to switch in and out all the time. I am pretty sure that Blue Shift is the only game that still requires the cd to play after updating it, so I figured I could combine them into one nice DVD and then install off there.
My question is, how would I go about this? I know the installers are Wise, so should I attempt to setup a silent install? My only problem is knowing if all the updates that install along side the game would also install. I would like as little user interaction as possible, so that I can just click and it goes. My other idea was some type of advanced batch script. That way I could install the game, and then do all the updates in one install. Anyone got any tips? I am fairly familiar with slipstreaming things, if that helps. 
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25-08-2005, 05:06
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Hi hunter444,
What I do with my games is install them, apply the latest update, extract the relevant registry entries into a REG file, archive the whole thing into a RAR archive and then put it aside (keep on hard disk, burn onto CD/DVD, you name it). That's a "full rip" as I call it but you can call it a "no-need-to-install-but-ready-to-use slipstreamed archive", too. 
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25-08-2005, 07:37
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How do you know the important registry entries ? Is there a program that "watches" the reg while installing a game and then extracts all them to a single .reg file ?! Where can i find such programs
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25-08-2005, 07:54
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If i remember corectly, there exists a tool named RegistryTracker by Symantec.
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25-08-2005, 08:42
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RegSnap is the tool you should use for this. It traces changes traces to registry automatically. (Regmon muste be used , ehm "manually"
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